After Sweetheart Deals, Senators to Vote on Amnesty Before Reading (UPDATE)

That was Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Christmas Eve 2009, when the Senate passed its version of Obamacare. Three-and-a-half years later, the same thing can be said about the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill after it was rewritten last week. In defiance of the obvious, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) released a statement late Sunday trying to explain why Senators, staff and Americans were given just 75 hours to decipher a 1,190-page substitute amendment:

“I’ve seen reports of a ‘1,200 page bill’ no one has read or had time to read. To be clear, the tough border and interior enforcement provisions that Sen. Hoeven and I offered on Friday make up 119 pages added to the 1,100 pages that have been public since May.”

To be clear, this amendment isn’t a game changer. And even with a cursory glance, it is clear that in addition to being reordered, those 1,100 pages were significantly altered. For example, some of the sweetheart deals include:

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) hopped on after his amendment dealing with expedited citizenship for thos in combat was added into the package (Chicago Sun Times)

And other changes to the bill simply reflect the power of who was holding the pen during the rewrite:

Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) had two of his three amendments, including one that waives fees for studios (Breitbart), wrapped into the rewrite, which he introduced as a matter of procedure (Leahy’s website)

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is widely seen as the mastermind behind the Gang of Eight and the rewritten version, had nine of his 13 amendments incorporated into the newest version (Twitter)

There are almost certainly more examples of sweetheart deals littered throughout the 1,190-page rewrite of the Gang of Eight’s bill, but with a vote scheduled for 5:30 PM ET on Monday, there is little time to examine it all. It is very different from the “open and transparent process” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) promised.

I’m sure that all of these blokes who vote for something they didn’t read already got the reward they were promised – things like automatic raises, military (free) jet travel back home. Parties with the IRS employees will full beverage service, etc.

I have an idea for a one page bill:
We will regularly and forcefully protect our borders.
All illegal crossing of our borders will result in fines, prison and a return to your home country. The third offense will result in life in prison. (Inmates will work to earn their keep)
No child of an illegal immigrant shall be given citizenship whether born in this country or not. When the parents are returned to their home country the children are returned with them.

And that’s basically it. No sweetheart deals, no loop holes, and no funny business.

I would add to your 1 pager, offenders will have to work off their terms by doing hard labor, preferably in the apple orchards, corn fields of America to pay for their room and board in prison and any fines they have accrued while being an illegal alien.

Any Senators or Congressmen who vote for Amnesty shall also go to prison and work right alongside their fellow illegal aliens. Now Singlethoughtprocess, how do we get your law passed? Seems that first we need a new Congress, right?

Absolutely. We first have to get the current administration impeached. I say stay on the phone lines, call your representatives on a daily basis. Lets ALL flood their phone lines to let them know we want changes and we want them now. Starting from the top and working our way down.
I liked your additions to my proposed one page bill. Lets type it up and send multiple copies to our representatives. Lets make sure that the proposed bill that, we the people, created gets out there. We will have to generate huge amounts of exposure before the press will pick it up.
On your mark, ready, set, GO!

Well I called and left hostile message to my lovable little Senator Hagan here in NC. The staffer who took my call must have also taken a lot of other hostile calls too. He acted as if the day would never end for him. I suppose he’ll get a giant raise as a result of the tongue lashing he got from voters who believe this Immigration bill to be a laughing stock porkulus bill just like ObamaCare was.

These folks are the real Terrorists in our country – DOMESTIC Terrorists plain and simple.

How much longer will we have to wait to bring fraud charges against Obama – and oust him – rendering all EO’s and laws past since he has been homesteading the White House – null and void – then bringing treason charges again those that have been his avid brown-nosers for 5 years – adding to our destruction.

In each state the voters are starting petitions of recall for the senators that have been consistently voting FOR laws that will lead to our demise – such as the amnesty crappola. Check your state for the petitions in progress. And yes – we are allowed to do this. We are allowed to RECREATE the government when it no longer serves its purpose..

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